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Obrigado vs obrigada - Expressions Usage - Practice Portuguese I always understood that men will use obrigado and women obrigada, when they say “thank you” However, I frequently hear Portuguese women use obrigado We live in Madeira and there are a few differences between the way some things are said here and the mainland Might this be the reason for this?
How to watch Portuguese TV outside Portugal Here’s how to watch Portuguese TV outside Portugal, including live RTP, SIC, and all the other channels Thank you @anthonylomangino for the excellent idea 😄 If you have a TV set-top box such as an Amazon Firestick, you can add apps to that box There’s an app called LiveNet TV that allows you to stream Portuguese (and other) TV channels There are different ways to do it, but here’s
Interesting use of até - Grammar - Practice Portuguese Hi there fellow PP’ers! I came across this sentence in my textbook: O Daniel gosta tanto do curso que até passa os seus tempos livres no seu local preferido: o mar It took me ages to figure out that até in this instance means even: "Daniel likes the course so much that he even spends his free time… " Somehow it seemed like a very illogical construction The only way I can make sense of
Going to the barber’s hairdresser’s - Practice Portuguese The terminology I was looking for was basically the standard cut that you may get at the barber’s, so I’ll list a few below: Buzz Cut → Corte à escovinha Fade (a skin fade, for example) → Dégradé Beard trim → Aparar a barba Shave → Rapar o cabelo a barba Wash, blow-dry and style → Lavar, secar e pentear Perhaps a request like “Short on the sides, neatened on top”, or
Reading Resources, Books in Portuguese In the beginning of 2019, I think it was, the Portuguese online journal, Expresso, published a Portuguese translation of Mohandas K Gandhi’s autobiography, “The Story of My Experiments with Truth ” It was a five-part publication made available to everyone I have been reading this series and have found it to be helpful practice, as well as being of great substance and inspiration
Confused about the verb Dever - Verbs - Practice Portuguese Olá! Eu tento escrever esta questão sem a ajuda de DeepL (desculpe se houver erros!) Fico confusa quando encontro ou uso o verbo “dever” em vários tempos verbais porque tem significados diferentes Eu li algures (no dicionário de infopédia) que quando verbo é conjugado no presente ~ “must” em inglês (ter de precisar de uma obrigação) mas quando o verbo é conjugado no
Faz sentido vs Tem sentido - Practice Portuguese (portuguese flag) Portugues faz sentido practiceportuguese com I would really like to buy a T-shirt with the above in a modest, graceful design There is a wonderful concise yet open ambiguity in “faz sentido” that spans heart and mind, individuals and the world Does that make sense and feel good to one and all? @joseph ?